Joseph Pearce, our friend and a speaker at several of our conferences, just sent us this message regarding the newest issue of the Saint Austin Review, on the theme “Tolkien and Lewis: Masters of Myth, Tellers of Truth.” For all the Lewis and Tolkien fans, this should be a treat.  And many of you may have met some of the writers at our events.

Dear Friend of C. S. Lewis,

Please allow me to introduce you to the Saint Austin Review (StAR), a cultural journal in its tenth year of publication, and, more specifically, to the very latest issue which is on the theme of “Tolkien & Lewis: Masters of Myth, Tellers of Truth”.

Highlights of this issue include:

“Reawakening Wonder: Farther Up and Farther in with C. S. Lewis” by Thomas Howard

“Harold Bloom and C. S. Lewis: Will the Real ‘Dogmatist’ Please Stand Up” by Louis Markos

“The New Tower of Babel: Modern Ideologies in C. S. Lewis’ That Hideous Strength” by Marie Cabaud Meaney

“Tolkien and St. Thomas on Beauty” by Michael Waldstein

Plus …

James Como on two newly-published novels by Lewis’ friend, Owen Barfield

Clara Sarrocco on The Latin Letters of C. S. Lewis

Eric Tanquist on The Letters of Joy Davidman

Pamela H. Tyrrell on Mere Christians: Inspiring Stories of Encounters with C. S. Lewis

For further details of how to obtain a copy of this issue or how to subscribe to StAR, please visit www.staustinreview.com/star/current.

Sincerely in Christ,

Joseph Pearce
Co-Editor
St Austin Review

Tags: C.S. Lewis, Clara Sarrocco, Eric Tanquist, J.R.R. Tolkien, James Como, Joseph Pearce, Louis Markos, Marie Cabaud Meaney, Michael Waldstein, Pamela H. Tyrrell, St. Austin Review, Thomas Howard

November is an important month in the life of C.S. Lewis - he was born November 29, 1898, and died November 22, 1963.

For his milestone eleventy-first birthday this year (Bilbo Baggin’s birthday in the opening chapters of Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings), the C.S. Lewis Foundation salutes CS Lewis and may his legacy stay constant for another one-hundred and eleventy years.

Tags: C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien

Note: the following blog post is a repost from our 2009 Southwest Regional Retreat Writers Workshop blog. Click here for the main 2009 C.S. Lewis Southwest Regional Retreat page.

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Review of The Company They Keep:
C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien as Writers in Community by Dr. Diana Pavlac Glyer

“No man is an island, entire of itself,” John Donne wrote in the 17^th century, “Every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main . . .”

Everyone needs others. If God had meant us to do this life solo, He would have stopped with Adam.

In The Company They Keep: C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien as Writers in Community, Dr. Diana Pavlac Glyer has written about the community shared by the Inklings and the influence it had on the lives and works of individual members - C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, Owen Barfield, Hugo Dyson, R.E. Havard, David Cecil, Nevill Coghill, Warren Lewis, and others.

Charles Williams thought we should live by the principle that, everyone, all the time, owes his life to the lives and labor of others. He believed in co-inherence-the unity within the Trinity, of all Christian believers, and of divine and human in the Incarnation.

The story of the Inklings gives us an exceptional example of the elements of influence and encouragement. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: C.S. Lewis, Camp Allen, Charles Williams, Diana Glyer, J.R.R. Tolkien, Nan Rinella, Southwest Regional Retreat, The Company They Keep

Note: the following blog post is a repost from our 2009 Southwest Regional Retreat Writers Workshop blog page. Click here for the main 2009 C.S. Lewis Southwest Regional Retreat page.

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Please excuse the pause in this blog. I’ve been on holiday, and, of all places, to The Kilns. Yes, C.S. Lewis’s home just outside Oxbridge, England. What a thrill and what a blessing the visit was.

I went as a participant of the Summer Seminars-in-Residence for the August 1-7 session. The Kilns was bought and restored by the C.S. Lewis Foundation. See “Programs” on this site for more information. If you are interested in my tales of The Kilns, click here to view the main C.S. Lewis Foundation Blog.  I wrote one post on-site and will continue with The Kilns Chronicles soon.

Meanwhile, “back at the ranch,” the plans go forward to our Texas retreat and writers workshop coming up just about two months from now. There is so much to share about this one-of-a-kind workshop. Keep visiting this blog for more.

Inklings & Inspiration

THE COMPANY THEY KEEP: C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien as Writers in Community by Dr. Diana Pavlac Glyer was the inspiration for this writers workshop. Lewis, Tolkien, and the other men who made up the Inklings were all writers. In her book, Diana tells their fascinating story-of the influence they had on each other, their lives and their work. So, it was a natural fit to include a focus on writing at this retreat.

I believe that it’s fairly common for writers - when we discover authors whose words sink right to the heart, settle into the soul, and stimulate the mind - to devour their every work and learn all we can about them. Of course, meeting them in person is a special treat. But for those no longer in this world, second best is learning from those who knew or studied them. Diana has thrown open the wardrobe door and invited us Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: C.S. Lewis, C.S. Lewis Foundation, Camp Allen, Diana Glyer, Inklings, J.R.R. Tolkien, Joy Jordan-Lake, Nan Rinella, Southwest Regional Retreat, Texas